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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-10
POTTER's PROTEST..

Editor POTTER, who is one of the
most rational and conservative of the
faction that demands admission or moth
ing, objects to the Aberdeen move
ment that it does does not promise adj
mission in season to Dakota to vote at
the presidential election. There are
other incOnSiderate parties who do not
see why the processes of state formation
cannot be completed in season to take a
hand in the quadrennial tussle. Editor
POTTER knows very well why this is
virtually impracticable, but some others
do not. Those who are pushing the
Aberdeen movement expect early in the
new year to have the reasons
for admission summarized in
manner that will enlist
favorable attention at Washington. They
design to be heard before the proper
congressional committees, and expect
these committees to recommend
action, and that within a reason
able time an enabling act will be ten
dered by both house of congress provid-
ing for the holding of a convention to
frame a state constitution for Dakota.
Even if there is no needless delay at
Washington, the election of delegates
and holding of constitutional conven-
fiOn will not be reached and the work
completed before the adjournment of
the present session Of congress. The
next session does not commence until
after the presidential election.
But before the state constitution
is sent TO Washington for final approval
it must be submitted to popular vote in
the territory. Would not Gen. CAMP
BELL, Editor POTTER and others of
their persuasion regard it as a gross and
wanton outrage if they we're not given
ample time to roam the territory and
exhort the people to reject the constitIl-
ton? Probably this vote will be taken
on the day of the presidential election,
and perhaps state officials, congressman
and a legislature chosen at that time
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thinker and slayer. The convention
will not lack for brains from either po-
litical party, but will have all that is
necessary to start any state Alright. Two
or three things are quite noticeable.
First, the farmers are taking a
deep interest in this move.
They seem 10 realize that the time has
arrived when they should no longer be
taxed from to 216 per cent every year
for school purposes, when, if admitted,
portions of the school lands could be
sold and the educational system main
tanned without direct taxation. Sec
Ond-The ScandinavianS all over the
territory are i'll sympathy with it be-
cause they are sOlidly opposed to divis-
ion for the reason that they want no
double set of OfficehOlders to sustain.
Third-The business men in the
smaller towns, outside of few of the
future cities which hope for capital
lightning, are divided, rather, they are
indifferent. They have their views one
way or the other, but, generally speak
ing, they are for whatever will bring
them immediate statehood. There has
been decided change in the tone of the
press since election. Strong country
papers. which prior to election advO-
Gated division, have had little or moth
ing to say about the matter since the
result of the election became generally
known, while papers once lukewarm
toward the division. more now look
with favor upon the admission cOnven-
ton. 1t Is true that some Of the daiies
in the southern part of the territory
have held up their hands in holy horror
at the move for admission as one state,
but their expression is regarded more
as in the interest of the respective
towns in which they are published than
as indicative of the general sentiment
of the masses.
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NOT POLITICAL MOVE.

Among the points made to fOment dis
SensiOn and excite prejudice against the
one-state movement is that most Ofthe
participants. in it, and especially the
signerS of the call, are Democrats. Out
of $50 names scattered all over the terri
tory, it would be impossible TO give an
accurate statement of their partisan af-
tiliationS, but the effort was to have them
divided as equally as possible between
the parties. A partial examination of
the list by those most familiar with the
parties indicates that, especially in the
North, the majority of the signers are
Republicans. None signed as Republic
cans or Democrats. 1t is hardly likely
that the Republican party will again
this year put a division plank in its plat
form and kick out the One-state men.
Should il do so, it will surely be left in
the minority at the election. AS one
evidence of the nOn-partiSan character
of the movement it may be noted that
the three counties iii the South carried
by the Democrats at the last election
now give large majOrities for division,
while the fifteen counties South that
voted against division are all strongly
Republican. 1t will be found that the
Aberdeen convention will be composed
of men of both parties, with few of
either who have been known as profess
siOnal politicians.
1t is said that in some counties South
a point that was used in favor of divis-
ion with a good deal of effect among the
local option voters was that the people
of the North were so addicted TO their
cups that Dakota could not be prOhib-
itory state as a whole. The voting
shows that quite as large portion of
the people in the North want water only
as a beverage as in the South. This does
away with one argument for division,
but it by 10 means settles the question
whether prohibition will be made feat
ure of the state constitution. 1t is i'll
timated that the next territorial legiSla-
ture is to be elected on the prohibition
line to pass a general law, but much will
depend upon the workings of local OPP
fIOO
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Blu y DEhE16S SO1SLELN II Ell II.
The farmers on the Northern Pacific
indemnity lands have, since the opinion
of Attorney General OAKLAND. and the
report that it would control the action of
the land department, been placidly rest
ing in the conviction that they were on
the easy way out of serious difficulty,
and the trouble was on the shoulders Of
the greedy fellows who had been put
ting up ShantieS on their plOwed ground.
One of them. who farms a good many
sections in Trail county, wrote 10 the
commissioner little time since, making
a strong presentation of the situation in
the interest of the men who bought the
land of the railroads and cOn-
Yerted it into farms. He received
a reply from the acting commissioner
this week and was astOnished to be told
in substance that, while he could hold a
quarter section, any parties who had
filed on the other quarters could proceed
to make their laimS. In one instance
in that locality settler some years
since filed a presumption upon quarter
section, paid his money to the local land
the money came back to him from Wash
ingtOn with the statement that his
claim was cancelled for the reason that
the land belonged to the Northern Pa
cific railroad and was not government
land He then went to the railroad and
bought the land, improved it and
brought its value up TO SD an acre. He
is now advised that the railroad never
had any title to the land and that per-
sons who are squatting all about him
can proceed to take possession Of his
farm. There has evidently been blum
dering at Washington, but it will no
doubt soon be rectified, and no greater
hai d ship imposed upon the honest pur-
ehaserS of these indemnity lands than
is indicated in the opinion Of the attOr-
ney general. a less favorable adjust
ment would be unjust to the bona fide
purchasers and settlers upon these
lands.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-10
GOOD HEAT COUNTRY.

While attention is taken up with
division, prohibition, Gen. TYNER's
Aberdeen letter and other agitating
questions, it is well to remember that
Dakota stands at least second to any
state in the Union III the total of its
wheat production. Territorial Com
missioner MCCLURE has revised his
first figures of 62, 100000, and now puts
the total at 53,OOO,OOO bushels for 1887.
The estimates of more conservative
judges put it at 45,00O,000. California
may, perhaps, show larger figures, but
certainly no other state. These bottom
figures show an increase of fifty per
cent over the previous year. Dakota is
evidently entitled to admission as a
state.
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DAKOTA SHIFTED.

The Omaha Republican, whose man.
aging editor was fOrmeTlys editor of a
Republican and division paper in Da
kOta, and should know better, asserts
THAT there is not drop of free trade
blood in Dakota Republican views"
The tenor of the article shows that he
means to assert that the Republicans of
Dakota are in harmony with the high
tariff views of their party in the East.
Probably he is not aware that the lead
ing Republican who, before the late
voting, took the stump for division in
the North, Il member of the last legiSla-
ture, based his argument for two states
upon the ground thatthe interests of the
people of Dakota are radically OPP
posed to the protective theories
of the East, and that more
senators were needed to outvote the
tariff men. No Republican paper in
Dakota uttered word of dissent from
this view. Even his venerable cO-trav-
eler and co-wOrker, Col. POTTER, always
a high tariff man in the East. did not
object TO this view. No Republican
voted against divi sion on account of the
low tariff position. The producers of
Dakota are as nearly unanimous for
tariff reduction as they are for any mat
ter of public policy. There is no agri-
cultural publication. no matter where
printed, that circulates largely in the
ter ritOry which does not strongly OPP
pose the present high tariff. Wherever
the farmers in any original ca
pacity have expressed their views
on the subject, they have
insisted upon such reform in the tariff
as would not, beyond the needs of the
government, impose taxes upon manu-
featured articles which they are obliged
to purchase. This question is being dis
cuSsed and agitated among the masses
of the people, and, in view of the low
prices of the chief products of the soil,
there is small disposition to be led by
partisan prejudices or traditions to
foster monopolies at their expense.
Should the Republican party in the ter
ritory declare for the Eastern tariff pol
icies, or take doubtful ground on the
subject, the Democrats can carry Da-
kOta on this issue. The presidents mes
sage on this subject suits Dakota.
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DAKOTA TOMS WISDOM.
He Claims Bedbugs Never Tackle
Man Who Is Clean.
to the Globe.

Special TO the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-Dakota Tom,
the man who refused to eat 1.-The stewed
mice. aven whin called traypins," was
a philosopher as well as wag. 1t was
he who discovered why fieas, mosQui-
toes and other articulates were created.
Old man Ryse, of Day county, had been
stopping at the National hotel, and COM
planned that he had not slept for sew
eral nights on account of the murderOus
assaults of the bedbugs upon him. He
said: II never could see what them
peSky critters was made for, anyhow
The entire crowd laughed heartily at
the unique old man, and Dakota Tom
spoke up, saying: "Well, l know ex-
actly what God created them for. They
never troubles me nor any other clane
men as kapes the pores av their skins
open wild water, But they gets after
the dirty fellers and makes 'eIn scratch,
and that way they compels dirty men
to let natur caper an kape their pores
open by scratchin', whites other paple
kapes 'em open wild cold water" And
Dakota Tom was most assuredly right.
Conversations with learned men since
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LOCAL OPTION In PERIL.
1t Is JeOpOrdized by the Inharmo-
NOUS Spirit of the w. c. T. u.

Special to the Globe.
FARGO, Dec. 6.-The internal COM
motion in the bosom of the W. {. Il. T.,
which threatened its usefulness if not
existence, has been nOminally adjusted
by the retiring of the entire admins
tratiOn and the surrender of the organ
izatiOn into the hands of the recalci-
trantS. A meeting was held this week
in one of the churches with closed
doors, and when newspaper repre-
sentative, noted for pulchritude and de-
vOtiOn to their cause, applied for adj
mission, his nose was stunned by the
alacrity with which the door on the
outside was made to strike it. As only
the kickerS attended and there were
offices enough to go around, there was
intense harmony, and coffee and dough-
nuts will again be on deck, and the inns
will have to feed and entertain the ter
ritOrial convention next year. The old
officers, however, did not resign, and
there are really two full corps of Off
Gals to the organization. There is some
prospect that the old officials may assert
their prerOgatives and carry the matter
into court. Some of them appear to
think that the success of local option
hinges upon this organization. in which
case the cause is evidently in much
peril,
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IMPORTANT IF TRUE.
1t Is Affirmed That the Republic
cans Will Nominate Allison for
President.


Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. "a gentleman
from Dakota, formerly an IOwan, has
recently had a conversation with SEN
ator Allison. He is wisely discreet, but,
after talking with other Iowa friends,
he says: 1.-THE cause of prohibition in
Dakota is but an index of the cause in
the entire country. The Prohibition
party is growing throughout the nation.
| can take news to my friends in Dakota
which will more than please them. The
PrOhibitiOnistS are going to elect a
president in 1888. Allison will be NOM
mated by the Republicans, and he will
be Endorsed by the PrOhibitionists as
their candidate, too. On a separate
ticket the ProhibitiOnistS cannot elect
any man; but they can indOrSe Allison,
the father of prohibition in Iowa, and
help the Republicans to elect him.
Thus, by wise coalition, the Prohibi-
tionists can elect president" 1t may
ator, direct: although Allison is known
as a man who never talks wildly nor
unnecessarily. y. If he intimated such
thing to man who likes to talk, it is
something remarkable. More than
likely the gentleman got it from some
Iowa admirer of the senator. However,
it contains pointer" no matter where
it was obtained, and it will be well to
keep a weather eye upon the quiet Iowa
man whose name is being so rapidly
doomed by certain class of Republi-
cans. They say that a man convinced
against his will is worth two of. a kind,
and the Democratic planners of the
country may as well look at the problem
which is presented in the combination
thus suggested.
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of
nicely that
noted
that combined the
worked
went pulled
abuse him in speech at Mandan When Church in him lots
at would DO everything aid him and his
could
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that time have evinced the fact that the
skin is mighty, health-producing
organ; better than either liver or kid
neys. and those who pay proper atten-
ton to cleanliness have no aches nor
pains. One learned doctor said: "That
Dakota man of whom you speak has
solved great problem. 1t seems ride
.ulous at first, but the fact is that divine
Providence could have taken no better
means to keep open the pores of the
ignorant than to send them vermin to
'kape thin scratchin',' as your friend
expressed it,"
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In Search of Light.
Special to the Globe.

Special TO the GLOBE
JAMESTOWN, Oak, Dec. 9.-The cleo
tric light enterprise Of Messrs. Klaus
and Kruse d Barker, of Milwaukee, has
been incorporated into company under
the name of the jamestown Electric
Light company. The capital stock is
$4,000. The incorpOrators are A. Klaus
Il Son, jamestown, and Kruse & Bar
ker, Milwaukee. The company is now
at work putting in the jamestown plant
Poles are being erected, and within a
very few days stringing wires will COM
mence.
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He had friendly
NY prfd was made plain was shown to the people OF ha
@ been had been firing at under cover trying to kl them
the like Dakota
myself began the attacks administration hoping of that
discovered the tables looked and facts
blasted the
believed
will admit, has
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After a College.
special to the Globe.

Special TO the Globe.
FARGO, Dec. 9.-Canvassers have
been put in the field, both here and in
the East, to raise funds for the Congre-
gational college located at Fargo, and
the architect is drawing plans for the
erection of four-stOry building to cost
$4,000 or $4,000. This is for begin
ming. 1t is expected that several much
larger structures will eventually be
needed. 1t is anticipated that spring
will see the institution fully on its feet
financially.
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Moody County ALI Fight

Special to the Globe.
FLANDREAU, Oak, Dec. s.-A full
delegation from Moody county will leave
here for the Aberdeen convention Tues
day next. Moody county was one of the
counties in South Dakota that gave
handsome majority against division.
Hon. George II. Rice, OF this city, will
head the delegation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-10

their official life conditional upon the
acceptance of the constitution by the
people, and later by congress. BY Jan.
l, 1889. admission may be had and the
full name of Dakota written upon Com
missioner MCCLURE's chart, but not
much before that date.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-10
DeadwOOd i'm Line.

Special to the Globe.
DEADwooD, OAK, Dec. S.-A deep
interest is taken in this county in the
Aberdeen convention. Lawrence county
will be represented. 1t is thought that
Judge Mclaughlin, Hon. Granville G.
Bennett and Hon. John R. Whiteside
will attend as part of the Lawrence
county delegation. Judge Bennett has
always been a consistent one-state man,
and he will no doubt be a prominent
figure at the convention. In Lead City
over 800 voters have signed the call.
The Black Hills may be set down as
largely in favor of the early admission
of Dakota as one state.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-10

A man in Sullivan County, n. Y, has
found petrifed potato. We have fire.
quently encountered petrifed potatoes
in the restaurants of this city. but had
no idea where they where grown.
Thanks, aWfully.-Pbiladelphia Call
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-01
The Result of Days Investigations
the Globes Faber Wielders in the
Flour City.
Use to Be Made of the Potter Process in
the Buxton Shelters in the Black
Hills.
Evangelical Association Ministers
Assigned Nelson Indicted
for Granddaughter.
Agitated over Prospective Com
mission Action.
THE POTTER PROCESS
70 Be Used by the Buxton Smelfers
in the Black Kills.

A big contract was signed yesterday, the
drst of the several the Potter Mining Smelt-
ing company expect to make. The article
pabished in the globe sometime ago at
tracted general attention in all gold and sill
yer mining circles and among others in the
works OF the Buxton company, at the Black
Hills. President Ankeny, of athat company,
came to Minneapolis. and had an interview
with the officers OF the Potter company, and
then went to Chicago, where he held a con-
ference with the inventor, John A. Potter.
The result was that yesterday contract was
duced at the Buxton smelter. Mr.. Potter is
to so at once TO Buxton, Lawrence county,
OAK, and superintend the erection OF q
thirtyfve-ton stack, which is to
be completed and in operation within
sixty days. Mr.. Potter is also to man
age the smelter for ten days, in which time il
will be thoroughly tested. and if it proves
what is expected, the Buxton company is to
pay the Potter Il good bonus and royalty OF
81 per ton. Mr.. Ankeny brought an expert
smelter with him and both were satisfied of
the coming revolution in the process Of smelt-
inS the precious ores.
Secretary Baldwin, of the Potter company,
is confident of the future of the process and
feels still more so since Mr.. Ankeny decided
TO proceed nj once, without awaiting the re-
suits of practical test to be made in an
other direction shortly. Correspondence has
been had with several of the leading smelling
companies OF the West, and Mr.. Baldwin is
Impressed with the belief that 1t will be but a
matter OF q short time until the Potter pro-
cess is in operation on all of them.
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LOW RATES SECURED.
Cheap and Rapid Transit Is to Be Had
Over the Nj. az st. L. r. r., the Line
of Lovely Lake Scenery, Be-
ginning May I'd.
Business Men to Have ACCOMMODATIONS
Communication Tickets $3.50
Per Hundred Rides.

ST. Louis Park is admitted by all to be at
the head and front in securing benefits for
home seekers. Large lots and rapid transit
in comfortable cars for business men who
can't afford to waste hours out of the
precious day in going and coming on slow
street cars. Now is the time to make sure
of large lot. of safe and easy access of
center of business on two railroads. The
Lobdell tract surrounding the depot is to be
put on the market in few days. The
title has at last been secured and all who
have been waiting will be rewarded for
their patience Everybody who has been
at the park is aware that this tract, on
which we have been delayed in offering it
for sale, is the choicest lay of ground, near
est the depot, and surrounded by lots al
ready sold off, and on which houses are
being built. Many have surmised that this
ground was only being held back by the
campany until they could secure all it is
worth. But it is not so. All who are de-
sirouS of securing choice lot will soon have
the opportunity at the renowned low prices
and easy terms of the st. Louis Park Land
and improvement company, who believe in
letting the public make part of the profits,
and their -and-let-live policy is ap-
preciated by the people. 1t is giving those
who wish fine home chance that will
not be obtainable in future years, as the
great metropolis spreads out in all drec-
tons. Now is the time to secure home.
Following is time table to begin May 2.
Watch the daily paperfor the date when
the Lobdell tract will be placed on sale.
Everybody will be given equal opportunity
to secure choice of lots on the grounds at
st. Louis Park.
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NOTICE.

A Card to the Members who Formerly Belonged
to the ST. Paul Fuel Company.
adopt the medium of this paper to say to all
those who owned stock in this association that
there $685. left in my hands as treasurer
when operations ceased. Some time after several
meetings were called to consider how to dispose
of this remaining fund.- but us no quorum was
present ut these meetings decision was
reached. There were seventy-nine shares held
by different ind ividuals. OF these twenty-eight
were not paid for. The record of the last meeting
will substantiate my statement. This report was
handed TO gentleman named Page, but his
whereabouts l do rot know ut present. Now in
order TO get this monej out of my possession and
to be used TO good purpose, suggest it be-
turned over to d. Il. Noyes, treasurer of the st.
Paul Relief society, to be used by that society as
they see fit for relief. The money cannot now be
refunded to the stockholders in proportion. rs q
number of them have left the city, and many Of
them have gone to their resting place. In con-
sideration of these facts herewith say to all
cerned that if | do not get instructions from the
majority of those who held stock, contrary to this
proposition, shall do rs above proposed after
June i.
This article will be published in the SUNDAY
GLOBE during the month of May. Any communi-
cations bearing this will be promptly answered.
JULIUS AUSTRIAN.